Dan Hill who blogs at City of Sound, has posted an elaborate an fascinating article about Lost and why this tv show is « genuilely new media ». A must read for anyone interested in the cross between tv and new media.
I’ve been as impressed with the way that the creators of Lost have enabled interaction around the show as with the show itself. Perhaps ‘enabled’ could be replaced with ‘coordinated’ or even ‘manipulated’, but strategically, the call-and-response relationship between the form of the show and the unfolding interaction across varying platforms would appear to indicate a very sophisticated understanding of contemporary media indeed.
Lost is an ambitious piece of media which uses the entire web as its canvas and its entire audience as its creators. I’d suggest this piece of work – Lost, when viewed in its entirety – is truly new.
You’ve got to check out the elaborate graphics this blogger has come up with to illustrate his point. Impressive stuff. It reminds me of a presentation I did in a film theory class many years ago (way before the Web): « Les circonstances d’�nonciation entourant le film le D�clin de l’Empire Am�ricain. » It was a big hit in my class. I kid you not.
Since I’ve been watching the show, I’ve checked out some of the parallel content about Lost on the Web but what I’ve been mostly interested in is the weekly podcast recorded by the two executive producers (head writers). It’s silly, we don’t learn that much about writing or the show and it pokes fun at its fan base but hey, it’s a great thing to listen to while I’m vacuuming the hatch house! How meta is that?
